One persistent criticism of the tech industry is that it no longer works on big ideas. For all of Silicon Valley’s talk of changing the world, critics say, Google and Facebook mainly hire ar... Read more
New system could reduce data-transmission delays across server farms by 99.6 percent Big websites usually maintain their own “data centers,” banks of tens or even hundreds of tho... Read more
It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a thought. But in a world where opting out of online culture is hardly an option, many take a far more sophisticated view of privacy th... Read more
Highly accurate system learns to decipher images on its own If we’ve learned anything from post-apocalyptic movies it’s that computers eventually become self-aware and try to eliminate human... Read more
It started over a poker game. Astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff and his students were playing cards (for chips) last summer, chatting about Facebook. They wondered: If there were time travelers... Read more
It’s a troubling image, one that some fear might not be limited to works of fiction. Consider this scene in “The Circle,” Dave Eggers’s new novel that imagines a dystopian future dominated b... Read more
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur and investor, attracted some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names to join him in starting a life sciences prize this year. Now, he has wooed a titan from C... Read more